Meanings of elision in English

Gibbons is an expert at the devious hint, the suggestive elision.

Citing a need to protect US forces in Irbil, then, is a convenient elision.

Brenton spoke with the curt elision of his country ancestry.

We have only an apparent elision of y a few lines later in his aspiring

And so the association, the elision, is swiftly clarified.

I don't believe in the word 'can't,' either with or without the mark of elision.

In elision he stands midway between Catullus and Ovid, inclining, however, more nearly to the latter.

This seems apparent from other numbers where it has not suffered elision, but merely incorporation, as:-

But there is also pollution, from a dangerous elision between news that pays and news that matters.

There is no hint of elision in the speech of Adeline Blakeley, scarcely a trace of vernacular.

On saxophone, Atzmon re-enters with his characteristic mingling of Middle Eastern microtonalism, and an eerie elision of notes.

Such seeming contradiction comes from elision.

It's this elision between modes that allows her to create nuanced works of literary fiction out of sensationalist material.

In Bond's story, this community becomes the fictional Black Community, an elision as central to American folklore as Mammy.

The elision is not a happy one, and the mere suppression of the "and" does not produce a satisfying line.

Such writing is free, unaccompanied by errors in spelling, there is no elision of syllables and no difficulty in finding the words desired.